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by didgetmaster 89 days ago
If you are trying to bootstrap your startup, then one of your biggest challenges is trying to find co-founders who can/will put as much skin in the game as you do. Everyone wants you to take all the risks while sharing all the rewards.
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That’s not true. Most of the time it’s the founder who wants early employees to take all of the risks by paying them much less than their market value with the promise of statistically worthless illiquid “equity”.

Especially bad when it comes to non technical founders with nothing but an idea, who put “ai” in their names and convinced YC to fund them.

second that